The call was from Han Rui, who said over the phone, "Mr. Gu, I've found the tenant that Miss Jiang had negotiated with, what do we do next?"
Gu Xici, with one hand in his pocket, stood in front of the ornately hollowed-out floor-to-ceiling window. He glanced back at Jiang Yi and then said into the phone, "Take the rental, and offer double the price. If the tenant disagrees, then triple, or quintuple. Even ten times is fine."
On the other end of the phone, Han Rui was silent for a few seconds, then responded, "Okay, Mr. Gu, I understand."
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The next morning, Jiang Yi received a call from the landlady.
The landlady, who had previously agreed on the price, suddenly went back on her word, catching Jiang Yi off guard.
Frowning, Jiang Yi communicated with the landlady in fluent English for about five or six minutes, but the landlady insisted that she no longer wanted to rent and was even willing to compensate Jiang Yi with double the breach of contract fee.
